Because better than any other celebrity in history, he represents the Ideal that the vast majority of Americans are chasing—Absence of Responsibility.

He’s the man that barely exists. He’s a concept, hopeychangey. He’s a state of moral choice—“I can’t do anything and I don’t have to do anything, because somebody (or better yet, everybody!) will do it for me.” That’s what almost everyone wants these days, and remarkably a ton of Wall Streeters managed to pull it off to the tune of great riches. It’s an amazing “achievement” in a way, if you ignore the suffering that it put on the backs of hard-working folk.